Sugarland Preparing To Launch 'Incredible Machine Tour' This Spring
"Sugarland" is perhaps the most utilitarian band name of all-time. It's such a non-descriptive appellation that it gives no hint to the band's musical genre. Most band names at least point to some general type of music.
For example, when you hear a name like "Metallica" you immediately know it's a heavy metal band. When you hear a name like "Green Day" you're certain it belongs to a punk band. And when you hear the name "The Black Eyed Peas" you instantly realize the band sucks.
However, "Sugarland" could be used to name a band from just about any genre of music.
The name would work extremely well for an all-girl pop group.
"Sugarland" could be used for a posse of rappers, especially if you remove the letter "r."
The name would fit a rock band, particularly one from the south.
A heavy metal band looking for an ironic name could always adopt "Sugarland."
It's suitable for less popular genres of music like bluegrass, Dixieland, polka, folk, and techno.
If you close your eyes you can picture a group of singers from the 1970's, all wearing silver jumpsuits and performing disco music under the name, "Sugarland."
The name even works for Celtic, Reggae, Latin, and World Music bands... "Los Sugarland."
Certainly "Sugarland" was the second choice for the duo of Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell (those are the dudes from Air Supply).
While the name "Sugarland" could apply to just about any band in just about any genre of music, it is the name of country music's brightest young duo, Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush.
A little history about both the name and the band, "Sugarland" was coined by Kristen Hall, the former third member of group.
Hall left the band in 2005 to "pursue a solo career," but some believe she was forced out because she was fat and openly gay, neither of which fit the image of a mainstream country music act.
The incredibly successful Sugarland has released three studio albums, all of which have reached multi-platinum status. A fourth is scheduled to drop this summer.
To support their new opus, the Atlanta-based
Sugarland will sell tickets to their "Incredible Machine Tour" set to begin April 23 in Primm, Nevada. The tour is scheduled to take Sugarland to 56 cities in the United States and Canada.
As for the Great White North, expect the pair to visit London, Ontario and
Toronto, Ontario.
"This new tour is a thrill for me," said Nettles. "It will reflect our latest writing and surprises to come for the new record, the hits that our fans love, along with the production value that people have come to trust and expect from our live shows. Don't come if you expect to sit on your ass the whole show. You won't be able to. It's a whole, new, rhythmic, emotional, visual, fun, incredible, experience machine.”
In other Sugarland news, the duo was featured prominently in a couple of international events.
Nettles and Bush recently participated in the (awful) re-make of "We Are the World." The 1985 smash hit was re-recorded to raise money for the victims of the Haitian earthquake. The song debuted at the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
Speaking of the Olympics, Sugarland contributed a song, "Wide Open," to the Team USA Soundtrack, a collection of new tracks inspired by, and dedicated to, the athletes of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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